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More bishops voice criticism — and support — for Vatican document on blessing same-sex couples

December 21, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

Bishops gathered at the19th Plenary Assembly of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar in Accra, Ghana, July 2022. / Courtesy of SECAM.

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 21, 2023 / 16:51 pm (CNA).
More Catholic bishops hav… […]

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Indiana Catholic women’s college reverses transgender admissions policy

December 21, 2023 Catholic News Agency 3

Woman with transgender symbol on her hand. / Juanje Garrido/shutterstock

CNA Staff, Dec 21, 2023 / 14:52 pm (CNA).
Saint Mary’s College — a Catholic women’s school in Notre Dame, Indiana — is reversing its controversial transgender admissions p… […]

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After military review, IDF again denies killing two women at Gaza Catholic church

December 21, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Injured parishioners receive Communion on the third Sunday of Advent, Dec. 17, 2023, at Holy Family Parish in Gaza. / Credit: Father Gabriel Romanelli/Facebook

CNA Staff, Dec 21, 2023 / 12:22 pm (CNA).
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has again … […]

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Pope Francis to Roman Curia: ‘Rigid ideological positions’ prevent us from moving forward

December 21, 2023 Catholic News Agency 40

Pope Francis gives his annual Christmas address to the cardinals who work in Vatican offices on Dec. 21, 2023, in the gilded Hall of Benediction at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media

Rome Newsroom, Dec 21, 2023 / 11:13 am (CNA).
Pope Francis … […]

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Save the Storks program in Maryville, TN, delivers life with 100th ultrasound van

December 20, 2023 Susan Ciancio 3

Christmas came a bit early this year for the Pregnancy Resource Center in Maryville, Tennessee. Just last week, the center took possession of a beautiful new mobile ultrasound van. It replaces the older van the […]

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Pope Francis urges humanitarian response to Darien migration tragedy

December 20, 2023 Catholic News Agency 0

A migrant carries a baby in the Darien Province in Panama on Sept. 22, 2023. Hundreds of thousands of migrants have entered Panama through this jungle so far this year. / Credit: Luis Acosta/AFP via Getty Images

ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 20, 2023 /… […]

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Same-sex blessings: Sinners can be blessed but not their sin, Spanish bishop says

December 20, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Bishop José Ignacio Munilla of Orihuela-Alicante, Spain. / Credit: Archdiocese of Valladolid

ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 20, 2023 / 18:30 pm (CNA).
The bishop of Orihuela-Alicante in Spain, José Ignacio Munilla, is focusing on the implications of pas… […]

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Bishops around the world are divided over Vatican’s same-sex blessing declaration  

December 20, 2023 Catholic News Agency 21

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Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 20, 2023 / 18:10 pm (CNA).
Catholic bishops around the world are deeply divided on a Vatican declaration that permits nonliturgical blessings of homosexual couples:… […]

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Dissenting priests in Syro-Malabar Church protest Pope Francis’ Christmas deadline 

December 20, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

A liturgy at St. Mary’s Syro-Malabar Major Archiepiscopal Church, Arakuzha, India. / Achayan via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Bangalore, India, Dec 20, 2023 / 17:50 pm (CNA).
Tensions are rising within the Syro-Malabar Church in the Indian state o… […]

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Convent in Gaza uninhabitable after taking fire; residents take refuge in parish church

December 20, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

The Missionaries of Charity convent located on the compound of Holy Family Parish, the only Catholic church in Gaza, was damaged by rocket fire on Dec. 16, 2023. / Credit: Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem

Jerusalem, Dec 20, 2023 / 17:20 pm (CNA)… […]

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